The law may not permit or forbid something, but consequences can snare you – or is it divine justice? Consider: if you could legally adopt your girlfriend, would you really want to?

That was what 48-year-old Florida mogul John Goodman did. You remember him? In February, 2010, after a night of serious drinking, Goodman blew through a stop sign at 63mph and smashed his Bentley into a Hyundai driven by a 23-year-old heading home to his parents’ house. [Read more…]